fata morgana
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In it he wrote: “I saw the iceberg, looming high/ and cold, like a cold fata morgana,/ it drifted slowly, irrevocably,/ white, nearer to me.”
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022
He checks Bernstein under "mirage, especially as observed in the Strait of Messina" and finds fata morgana.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Life is synonymous with suffering; positive happiness a fata morgana, an illusion.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert
The tutor, also, who superintended my studies in the more advanced stage of my education, was just fitted to complete the fata morgana which was forming in my mind.
From The Crayon Papers by Irving, Washington
For years she has waded through the mire after a fata morgana, and the world laughs, and points its fingers at her.
From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Schubin, Ossip